Little Goffy

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Is there where we put the Nick Haynes Pick 7 Salary Dump conversation?

We give six and 11 for North's 3 and 18. North give 2 and 15 (and probably more) for West Coast's 1. North take Reid at 1 and still have 6 and 11 to play with at the premium end. West Coast gets their boy Curtin at 2 and have at least an additional first round pick for their trouble. We get [Taylor's secret herbs and spices] at 3 and [Taylor's pulled beef slider] at 18. Rationale is that North have late first round picks coming out the ears and no real need for them, but 6 and 11 are pointy enough to matter to them. West Coast have to rebuild a list and want those extra late-first round picks, but also would want to be sure of getting Curtin, making 2 necessary for them. Meanwhile we always have our eye on some gun at the top of the table and have a record of drafting high-low rather than a spread. Yeah, I know, just playing a game of 'nearest the pin' here.

And at the other end of the pole, pick 40 could drop well into the 30s given the vast collections of picks which are going to be cashed for points. Gold Coast currently have four second round picks and pick 18, which will likely all be cashed. Bulldogs will probably set themselves with two late second-rounders to build points for Ashcroft. Hawthorn may well upgrade a second pick into the late 30s to be ready to get Will McCabe. Plus, Kynan Brown might get bid on in the second round, in which case, well, bugger it, why burn the second-rounder we had anyway when a couple in the 40s will do? Still, seems a lot to pay to go from 14 to 11.

Remarkable that we got more for Grundy than Collingwood got for Taylor Adams. Starting to think that AFL clubs don't measure their trades in standarised currency!

Well, in the end we turned pick 27, 2022 into Pick 47, 2023 and [second round pick] 2024. Is it too early to start a "Death Riding the Sydney Swans" thread?

On the face of it, 14, 27 and 35 for 11 looks just plain silly. Trying to rationalise it, some possibilities; - We've got no real interest in the available draftees from the second round and we're happy to catch sliders with our selections from 40 on. - We have a very specific interest in one or more players who will be available at 11 but not 14. - We have a very, very specific interest in something that can get done that needed 11, with a club that had no interest in second round picks.

Goes to the Bulldogs and instantly lifts their tattoo game by four ladder spots. Really happy for him to have secured an extra two years on his contract. He'll always be welcome back, that much is certain.

Can we please find a way to turn him into a restricted free agent? We'd get consecutive pick 1s if McKay is anything to judge by.

Not sure he ever delivered two consecutive AFL-standard games, and there have been murmurs about his attitude for years. Part of the reason Carlton spent a decade out of finals. No thanks.

This is not only a rort for North, it is also a rort for Essendon who the AFL have helped out by allowing them to offer McKay a package which North would have matched if the FA compensation had been appropriate. Which also illustrates; does anyone in their right mind thing Essendon would have traded a top-3 pick to get McKay? Or even their current top 8? So now not only has every club had its second round and later picks moved back two places (North's compensation pick AND the 'future' compensation pick North got which has since traded its way to Port) but now also everyone's first round pick has been bumped back one slot. I mean, can we all at least have the 150 draft points as compensation, to use next time a F/S etc comes up? F'ing ridiculous. Such bad governance. This is 'rule by decree' stuff.

I was irked and began looking back over premiership teams which had topped up from the draft just prior. A couple of obvious winners were Cyril Rioli and Joel Selwood. Then I realised; Jackson, Rivers, Pickett + Bowey. Except for out tragically wounded forward line we aren't too bad for depth and I'd suggest any mature top-4 team which had a pick roughly every eight selections up to pick forty (5, 13, 26, 34, 40) would be and should be laughing. I don't think there's ever been a top-4 side with a draft hand that strong.

Well, now, if Darcy decides he'd like to come to Melbourne I'd be willing to offer a pretty good four-year contract.

Okay Adem, we see you!

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1051386/western-bulldogs-secure-pick-no4-from-gold-coast-suns-in-first-trade The Suns will now listen to offers for pick No.10 – with Adelaide and Melbourne both interested in the selection – as they look to accrue more points to match bids

If McAdam is a spare Neal-Bullen and Duursma is a spare Hunter... Well, actually, I don't know how I feel about either! I have been thinking that Hunter going closer to goals would mitigate the downside and get the most of his debatable habit of looking for trick-shot ways to keep the ball moving. Close to goal a bit of unpredictability and keeping the ball alive is more useful, and the damage from turnovers and counter-attacks is less instant compared to wing turnovers which should have been stoppages. Duursma is at least young and has shown good signs prior to a string of injury interruptions. - insert your fresh start and clean run at it cliches here - Of course, one thing we all know is that if he goes to Essendon he'll never make any progress. Is it our responsibility to save him?

10 and 17 are of interest if Gold Coast had them from the Dogs for 4. Same basic scenario, though not quite such a premium pick. Would a future first and a collection of our points-effective second-rounders do the job?

That [censored] me off so much I'm on the edge of making a drink-driving joke. It would not be funny.

What are the chances that we can get Hibberd to hang around a bit and be a mentor to the likes of Rivers and McVee? Sigh, just got a little tweak of sadness; dropped by footywire and it was the first time I'd opened our list and Hibberd wasn't on it.

Mackin really is fast. Lots of intense hunting right from the start of the 4th quarter. Interesting seeing Harris and Goldrick having a chat before the bounce and then both getting right into the pursuit. Bit of leadership.

Adelaide have got a really effective mix of hammers and knives out there. We're not going to beat them unless we can force them out of their structure and make them do the jobs they aren't set up to do.

It is conceivable I'm having actual Bryce Gibbs hallucinations when watching Sam Walsh and that is taking a tiny slice off how highly I rate him. 🤪 I think it is a very fine margin between the two, but I feel like Rozee just has that little bit more influence on games.

Fair call to say each of them would be in 'arguably the best' range. Personally I'd say Rozee (pick 5) has edged past Walsh now, though Walsh was an amazing early gun and remains elite. Weitering has to compete with Oliver (4) and C Curnow (12), which might never be splittable given the totally different positions. Hodge v Judd is an enduring debate, of course. But that 2001 draft produced multiple club champions, Brownlow and Norm Smith medallists - including the talent surge that turned Geelong from mediocre to decade-long dynasty. The trades being talked about for Reid are greater than Geelong's entire 2001 draft hand! Edit: Gary Ablett Jr was also in 2001, so the Hodge v Judd debate is slightly moot.

The talk of burning multiple first round and even top-5 picks to get Pick 1 deeply scares me. For all the hype, you have to go back to Nick Riewoldt to find a no.1 pick who was the best player in their draft. Maybe Brendan Goddard in that season's overall pretty weak draft. Less than 1 in 20 isn't a good enough strike rate to give up multiple picks which have almost as good (or in the case of picks 4 and 5, better) strike rates! Please could everyone spare a thought for my nerves and stop chasing only the shiniest stone?

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